Year: 2004

It’s music day here at HBO. We got word from Marc at Halo Universe that they had a new piece of fan music, created by Noah Hofmann, called ‘Halo: The Resistance’. It’s a gorgeous piece… techno-ish. It reminded us that there were a couple of pieces here, waiting in the queue… what better time to…

BOLL, never one to rest on his laurels, has added yet ANOTHER cool feature to his AutoMagic 117 Stripmaker – now you can choose the background color! Specify it via the sliders, if you want… or just type in the hex code you’re looking for, if you know it. Changes happen in real time. (All…

Travis Cossel sends in a Halo sighting in a relatively obscure magazine called ‘Boards’ (it’s aimed at television advertising types). The current issue contains an interview with a creative talent for the ad agency OWN+P (they’ve been developing commercials for EA Games, among others), and the response to ‘what is your favorite game?’ was interesting:”I’ve…

So, while I was out enjoying my family last night, mnemesis was updating the front page… but he didn’t stop there; he went a little nuts with the Halo Story Page mailbag. For a while, Finn has been carrying the ball… but it looks like a lateral pass took place somewhere without anyone noticing. Go…

Recently, we’d mentioned that we’d mentioned the translucent green Xbox/copy of Halo/special-Halo-logo-S-controller deal. Well, Ross “I Suck” Mills has found a press release detailing the US availability of the boxes and has printed it out in our forum. Of course, he didn’t actually provide a link to the release, but luckily for you I found…

The Bungie Weekly Update is over at Battleground: Halo. Like they need another update. Kidding! Kidding! Jeeze, stop throwing stuff at me! Ow!

In case you have a boatload of cash sitting around, and you’re wondering how to make your Halo playing experience more gratifying… Frankie has written up a nice article over at Bungie.net called ‘Halo Home Theater’, running down some of the nicer toys you can buy for improving your audio-visual intake. Go read it!

There’s a new .comic over at Subnova; Boxer[sn] looks at one of the more annoying practices on public HPC servers, and one nice way to take care of it.

Halo made it to the Final 8 in Gamespy’s Title Fight… but lost today to Half-Life, by almost 3000 votes. Not unexpected… but disappointing. Better luck next time, guys!

Halo Babies has a new comic up… and it’s the start of an actual SERIES (with a plot, and everything). Go take a look!

Never too late for One One Se7en – this one points out one of the coolest pages of artwork we have here at HBO. Go look. And get bubbles around your head.

20 pieces of Fan Fiction today – sorry they didn’t get out earlier. Halo: Lost and Found, by Riley217 Civilian Assault, pt. Three- Unexpected Air Support, by ONI_operative_343 Operation: Stingray Ch. 2: –Desperation–, by Nick Kang Assault Part 3: What no Pelican?!, by Joe Ehret Prodigal Son: Part 6 (beginning), by Scott Devary Battle of…

Halo: Resolution begins to get… weird. (As a side note: Fuzzy would appreciate it if you email him if you notice his sprites being used on another website. Thanks!)

On March 12, we mentioned that the US version of the Special Edition Halo-branded Xbox would be available ‘very soon’. Since it was the third news post about that Xbox in as many days, we said we were done talking about it… but yesterday, IGN posted a story about it – and until this morning,…

Roger Wilco found some 3dsmax models and meshes of Halo Vehicles and Characters and Guns over at Turbosquid; they’re not textured, but if you want to work with the models, there they are. (Deeper down in the thread is an example of what you can do with these.)

So if you were following the Gamespy Title Fight between Halo and Half-Life earlier, you probably noticed that Halo racked up over 20,000 votes in a couple of hours – twice the number of votes it had received in any other Title Fight during the entire 24 hour run. GameSpy noticed, too… and the rules…

Okay, the foolishness has ended… we’re back to normal. It was fun, and there’ll probably be a postmortem in the next few days, detailing the various pranks pulled over the course of this April Fools Day, 2004… but for now, rest easy, knowing that nothing major changed yesterday.

Really bad news over at Halo Babies… psycho fans have taken Gruntsbane out of commission. No more strips until he’s healed. Ouch!